Warbah Island

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Al - Warba (Arabic جزيرة الوربة, DMG Ǧazīrat al - Warba, often even without Article Warba ) is a Kuwaiti island at the northwestern end of the Persian Gulf at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab. al - Warba is about 100 meters east of the Kuwaiti mainland, 1.5 km north of the island of Bubiyan and one kilometer south of the Iraqi mainland. al - Warba is about 15 km long, 5 km wide and has a surface of 37 km ². The flat Schwemmlandinsel belongs administratively to the province al - Dschahra.

The island has no permanent residents, but is on her a post of the Coast Guard, M -1. By 1994, al - Warba was controversial because of its strategically important location between Kuwait and Iraq. 1994 approved the demarcation of the Iraq proposal of the UN Security Council to.